Disney

People are basically nice; conditions are pretty forgiving.

After a few years here, it's kind of a get-what-you-pay-for kind of deal.

I think on some level management is aware they're not expecting a ton, and managers here have been promoted after heading up total failure projects.

There are entrenched figures with tight interpersonal bonds; their favorite people seem to snap up the lion's share of the raise money year after year.

The degree to which you're expected to put out 'extras' if you want a promotion (big raises really only happen with a formal promotion here along a pretty well-defined title hierarchy) is high enough as to not be commensurate with what the promotion will actually bring you.

Enough long-timers here discuss year-over-year raise rates enough to know over-achievers here still aren't getting what they could elsewhere.

At the same time, management is happy to let you coast and still get you at a cheaper and cheaper rate each year as the local tech market salaries grow faster.

As a huge company with never-ending options that moves at its own pace, they kind of know they hold all the cards with a long-term full-time employee.

All in all, it's not a terrible place to work. Just disappointing after several years here.

Self-advocacy here is almost pointless, and I should have moved on after about 2 years (get the name and experience on the resume, then better your career elsewhere).

You have multiple odd birds in senior and management spots at this point, and there's a growing sense of fiefdom where more and more of the serfs are feeling like they really only win if they're helping someone else build their little corner of the office.